Malaysia should withdraw all reservations towards the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against ...

Iran's moderate president Hassan Rouhani has a chance to enact one of his campaign promises to promote women’s right by signing the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against ...

KUALA LUMPUR, April 30 — The Malaysian Bar today called for the immediate withdrawal of remaining reservations ...

The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, CEDAW in short, was adopted in 1979, and came into force in 1981. To date, a total of 189 countries ...

CEDAW is not just a wish list from which politicians in the UK can ‘pick-n-mix’ when drawing up their shopping lists of “things to do about women”. Jane Esuantsiwa Goldsmith argues that in the run up ...

Senior Policy Analyst, Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing Grace Melton is a Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing.

In the coming months, the Obama Administration and the Senate will have the chance to right a major wrong of the Bush era: the US government’s refusal–along with such beacons of women’s liberation as ...

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi – The Hawai`i State Commission on the Status of Women received the annual achievement award from the National Association of Commissions for Women (NACW), a national organization ...

In late July, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to send a United Nations treaty on women's rights to the floor for consideration, its chairman, Joseph Biden, D-Del., said he supported ...

We are writing to express our concern about Morocco's apparent delay in lifting its reservations to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). During your ...

In a major step forward in the protection of older women’s rights, the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee has adopted a new general ...

Prakriti Shrestha, an adolescent girl from Nepal, spoke at CEDAW Committee in Geneva today on some of the issues faced by young women and girls in the country. She said despite legal progress in the ...